Right ventricular diastolic performance: Compliance characteristics with focus on pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular hypertrophy, and calcium channel blockade

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 206-243

  Ferlinz, Jack ^a,b  

^a Aleda E Lutz Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channel blockade; Diastolic performance; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular compliance; Right ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HYPERTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0031882223     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199802)43:2<206::AID-CCD22>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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